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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2009

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2009. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2009. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2008 will most likely earn money in 2008 and 2009.

Top Grossing of 2009

RankCreative TypeMovies2009 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 285 $4,530,562,636 604,074,915 42.58%
2 Science Fiction 30 $1,747,969,165 233,062,548 16.43%
3 Fantasy 39 $1,536,002,933 204,800,380 14.44%
4 Kids Fiction 21 $1,131,931,801 150,924,239 10.64%
5 Dramatization 38 $604,746,705 80,632,881 5.68%
6 Historical Fiction 47 $551,649,089 73,553,195 5.19%
7 Super Hero 5 $311,251,545 41,500,205 2.93%
8 Factual 94 $207,527,123 27,670,245 1.95%
9 Multiple Creative Types 1 $644,635 85,951 0.01%

Our Theatrical Market pages are based on the Domestic Theatrical Market performance only. The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years. Each box office year starts on the first Monday of the year, so the previous year ends on the Sunday before the first Monday. For example, the "2017 box office year" started on January 2, 2017 so the "2016 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 1, 2017.